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341. The Recluse And The Snake

Once upon a time, when Brahmadatta reigned Benares, the Bodhisatta was born as a rich Brahmin’s son. When he was old enough to run about his mother gave birth to another son. Both the brothers, when they grew up, were so deeply pained at their parents’ death that they became anchorites, and lived in leaf-nuts which they made them at a bend of the Ganges river. The elder had his lodge by the upper Ganges, and the younger by the lower river.